Dusseault Family- Lane County Family Session

evenings

A wonderful peach pie that my mom made tonight. It was delicious.

Left: outdoor symphony concert with Autumn, Louise, and Andre. One of the woman in front of us (not pictured) got hilariously drunk on champagne. She almost fell over at the end of the 1812 Overture and danced in her seat when the orchestra started to play the mambo. Right: Susanna eating ice cream at a baseball game. (Notice the sweater!)

Evening spent with friends. The photo on the left is my phone lock screen image. It makes me smile every time I look at it! I'm going to miss everyone from my church so much. Thankfully, though, Ellie and Autumn are coming up to see my over Labor Day weekend, and we're taking the train up to Seattle! I can't wait.

Lucy has a new summer haircut....

Clover in the yard. Thank you July Rain. Everything's green and fresh.

One more thing...a friend took pictures of my family and did a really lovely job. (Photographing 8 people and a dog is like herding cats, so she gets extra points!) You can see the shoot over on the Lily Fields Photography blog.


I'll end this post with a behind the scenes shot I took a a few minutes ago....we're leaving town in a little less than one week. Can you tell?

Portland in July

I find it difficult to actually write stuff in my posts, so here's a list of random things I did (or that happened to me) this week:

• Went to my second-to-last penultimate(!) music lesson. I'm really going to miss my vocal instructor.
• Was able to spend an afternoon with a friend I hadn't seen in a long while. Thankful for that.
• Watched my 4-year-old brother "run" at a track meet. And by "run" I mean that he ran ten feet then stopped because all the other four-year-olds had flown past him.
• Counted a million (or so it seemed) kindergarteners with feather extensions in their hair.
• Drove to Portland on Thursday with my dad and Louis.
• Spent 40 minutes waiting in line for a doughnut.
• Got locked out of the house at midnight.
• Realized that whenever I download an app on my iPhone, my mom's iPhone mysteriously downloads the SAME APP. This telepathic relationship between our phones is starting to disturb me.

Anyway, here are some photos from Portland. We stayed downtown so I wandered around a bit.

(Portland scenes from last December here)

big sky

Hernandez Family

gardens and geese

I did a photoshoot in this rose garden on Saturday- I'll be posting those images soon. Today Mikaela and I were out on our bikes and decided to head out in that direction: